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Srcetch of (he Malayan Peyiinsida, 



[Jan, 



Interior Xative States, 



Rumbowe 9,000 



Sungie ujong , 3,600 



Johole 3,080 



Jompole 2,000 



Jellcibu 2,000 



Srimenanti , 8,000 



Aborigines scattered over the peninsula 9,000 



B r it I'sh PossessioJis. 



j\Ialacca andXaning 

 Province Wellesley. . 



37,706 census for 1836 

 ,46,880 census for 1835 



Total. .374,266 



This does not include the population of Pinang, Singapore, and 

 other islands off the coast. The population of Qaedali, before the 

 Siamese invasion, was estimated by Captain Glasse at 100,000 and 

 that of Palcini at 90,000. These fine provinces now contain little more 

 than one-eighth of their former inhabitants, and this remnant in a 

 wretched state. The Samsams are a race of Malays who have adopted 

 the religion and language of the Siamese. The Siamese are supposed 

 to occupy that part of the peninsula that extends from tlie gulf down 

 to 7" N., from TroMg on one side to Sangora on the other, where the 

 iMalay population commences, but of late years they have encroached 

 much further south, driving the ^Jalays from Quedah on the W. coast, 

 and from Pfl/ani on the east, the most fertile of the Malayan states. 

 The Siamese it is well known are followers of B add' ha. They are di- 

 vided into two races, the T^hay and the T'hay J' hay. Their national 

 name is Shan corrupted into Siam. They are a busy, vain people, 

 deceitful, and cruel, though industrious and enterprizing. In Salangore* 

 a colony of Bugis from the great island of Celebes is found. These 

 enterprizing mariners are jSIahomedans like the INIalays, and are said 

 to have established themselves here and at Lingie, on the i\Ialacca 

 frontier, towards the commencement of the last century. Along the 

 coasts and adjacent islets is thinly scattered a race of Icthyopophagi, 

 possibly identical with those described by Herodotus, termed by the 

 Malays Akkye or Rayet Lant," subjects of the sea ; and among the 

 forests and mountains of the interior are found several barbarous tribes, 

 the aborigines of the country, who subsist chiefly by hunting, and by 



